Squarespace Reviews: 4.4/5 — Solid Choice

Squarespace is intuitive, so you could pick it up and learn it without someone teaching you. There's also help available 24/7 if you run into any issues. I use Squarespace when building websites for clients, and the handoff after a project is completed is a breeze. Plus, it's pretty inexpensive! I also love that I can make the templates feel more custom with some simple CSS.

The new Squarespace 7.1 makes some things simpler, and some things more difficult. It's easier to add color themes, but customizing requires more work + code. I also wish there was a way to have more options for fonts/headlines without having to use custom code. It should be easier to upload your own font! 7.1 also got rid of parallax scrolling, which is frustrating. Fortunately, 7.0 templates are still available, so depending on the project, I will sometimes return to those.

Squarespace makes it easy to build a professional looking website quickly. Making updates takes no time, and it's easy to train my clients how to use it upon handoff. Plus, as a member of Squarespace Circle, I have access to so many more resources that are valuable to my team.

I love that as a designer, I can use Squarespace to fully customize a website to my clients' brand and use, no matter the client. THEN I can hand it off to them and they can have the confidence to continue to update and maintain their website with their slick user interface and controls! Many times clients are intimidated about using something new and techy but once I sit down with them and show them the basics of Squarespace they have a renewed confidence and are able to manage their own websites without the stress or confusion that usually comes along with such a task.

They are a little behind on some options and functions that would be nice for bigger businesses with more needs. BUT they are constantly updating, learning and building. So they do eventually catch up.

I am able to add website design to my design services. I am a graphic designer and many potential clients used to ask "do you do websites" and I would always have to answer "not yet". With Squarespace, I had the time to learn and become fluent in using their platform pretty quickly so that I can serve my clients better. And that is without lacking on the service either. Squarespace usually has everything my client is looking for in a website plus some "wow! I didn't realize I could do that"s.

Squarespace has various of slots to fill, places to move, and objects to change. It provides multiple domains for different businesses or topics. There are also multiple formats that provides for you for ideas and select a monotone color combination for the whole domain for consistency. I love how you can market any products or organize your business in marketing or commerce by selling or analyzing how many people visit your page.

I don't think the limited monotone color combinations given where it's harder to expressive multiple colors. Some limitation I also wish were lowered are the animations, buttons, and fonts. The price is also too pricing for one month and wish it was less.

I am using Squarespace to organize all my past designs and prepare for work-in-process projects in the future. I want to use Squarespace to the fullest to express who I am, what I do, and my skills. Because I'm having full use of Squarespace, I'm considering using its marketing and commerce aspects to sell my work or offer my service for social media planning. I realized Squarespace is not own for a business or marketing, but it can be a great way to represent yourself to clients or future employers.

The features and the layouts, the GUI and everything about it is absolutely amazing and easy to use.

I don't see any downfall or really dislike about using this site

This is far better way of creating our revised website, as the old methods of creating each and every feature using a code or the amount of work that would go into a small feature to be embedded was really messy

Squarespace is so user friendly and has beautiful template designs without the extra costs. I love the fact that I don't have to purchase tons of plugins to get my blog optimized and to operate smoothly as I did for WordPress. My site gets more consistent traffic because the site is naturally mobile responsive and SEO friendly. Squarespace makes it easy for the owner of the site and readers to navigate through the site. Not only does the template designs look good from the reader's point of view, but it also looks good on the backend of the site. Squarespace allows you to see realtime edits without having to do the code and then either put your URL in a separate browser or click a preview button. This makes it easier to make sure your formatting is correct and you like the way it looks without all the extra steps. I also like that it doesn't crash! Or at least it hasn't crashed on me since I started using it last year. Overall, I think that Squarespace is a great self-hosting platform for those who hate trying to code, spend tons of extra money on plugins and template designs, and want a user-friendly drag and drop experience. Plus I like the email campaigns. It has made building templates and sending out emails much easier than using a 3rd party. I can easily bring my most recent blogs into my email and have people subscribe to my blog with ease. Squarespace offers a pop-up option for newsletter sign-ups that you would've had to pay extra for on WordPress.

I wish Squarespace had an easy way to transition from Squarespace 7.0 to version 7.1. Right now, you have to set up a completely new site to experience the new design features and transfer the domain. Don't get me wrong, I'm happy with version 7.0, but I would also like to have my site be updated to the most recent software. I love the idea of having more flexibility with my template design for my blog. I know Squarespace is working on it so until they figure it out I'll be keeping the 7.0 version.

One, I'm solving the SEO. As soon as I make tweaks here and there, it seems like my blog gets favor by Google faster than it did with WordPress. My blog looks better than ever and it gives me one less thing to worry about between trying to write high-quality content and promote it. The last thing I want to be doing or worrying about is spending hours trying to perfect my blog's aesthetic. Now, I can focus on what really matters and reach people all over the world on a regular basis! Although I pay the monthly fee, it is less expensive than WordPress self-hosting platforms in the end because Squarespace has all of the features you would need built-in to its software. It's better for my wallet and keeps things simple because everything is in one place and the features I used the most on my self-hosting platform for WordPress, I can get with Squarespace too, again, without the extra costs.

I love Squarespace, moving over from wordpress i have found so many benefits to squarespace and so havce my clients. I use sqaurespace as a designer i am also a personal user. Squarespace makes it so easy to build a website, it is extremely flexible and so user friendly.

The only downside is that i feel the blog section could do with some tweaks and improvements. Although as it stands at the moment i feel that it isnt a complete let down and does offer everything that i really need it to.

Squarespace allows me to offer various template themes which squarespace offer and also allows me to code themes when my client wants something more unique. I now create and design my clinets websites all on this platform and do all major changes and they are happy that they can log in and make the basic changes like opening times, body copy and new images.

You literally don't need another program - everything is already into it (analytics, email newsletters, setting up your own email) and it's so customizable. It's also helpful how thorough the resources are that the website provides.

There is definitely a little bit of a learning curve to the program and it can be hard to figure out where something is or how to do something

I'm using it to help a musician I'm managing promote herself. There's so many different features - she can do event listings, sell products, link to other sites, do her emails, get analytics, and more, all in one

Love it all! Templates, ease of use, clean design.

Sometimes the tech is a bit wonky and need to play around with placement.

Made my own website and clients

Squarespace gets a ton of things right with its platform. For one thing, they include the intricacy of designing your own website page-by-page without the headache (or needing the knowledge) of coding the entire thing yourself. It's the best of both worlds, because if there's something you WANT to code, you can do that too!

The learning curve is a big one, for sure. It took me a couple of months to truly understand all of the aspects that it had to offer, so it does take some time investment (or trial by fire, i.e. me redesigning two websites with specifics on short notice) on the front end to get comfortable with.

Squarespace has unparalleled customer support, so even when there is something I don't understand, I've been able to quickly find the resources that I need (which helps me to never take excellent customer service for granted). This allows me to never have to dwell on a single problem for too long, which helps me to keep my design time efficient.

I enjoy how easy Squarespace makes website creation. All of the building blocks to create a solid and fluid website are at the ready.

There isn't much I dislike about the product.

We are reaching broader audiences with the newsletter subscription option.

I'm a huge fan of Squarespace. I use it as both a designer and and a personal user. Not only is it easy to build a website, it's extremely flexible. Many WordPress purists will disagree, but the level of customization is quite striking when you become well-versed in Custom CSS and engage with the Squarespace community. It's a platform I ca rely on and I love that it's constantly improving.

Blogging still has a long way to go, but I feel confident this will improve over time. Would also love to restore previous page edits.

I'm helping clients get powerful websites that are reaching the people they need. Despite what you hear about Squarespace's SEO functions, nearly all of my clients are ranking on the first page of Google. When you leverage the tools they have available, Squarespace delivers powerful websites that really make life easier.

This website provider has been the easiest to get to grips with, they offer a massive range of tools, to make your website look at it's best!

I sometimes have trouble wit alignment on different screen sizes i.e things will be placed 'off-centre' on a phone, compared to a computer screen.

How user-friendly the platform is, and there are all sorts of tutorial videos to help you out in different areas.

It’s ease of use unlike any other web builder out there!

I dislike the customer service. There are times I can’t get the help I need.

I have an easy to use web builder and I now no longer wonder if I can build a website.

The ease of Squarespace's interface is useful.

Nothing. Squarespace made obtaining my domain and designing my website very easy.

The benefit of Squarespace is the ease in which I am able to update my website to add new content. It is truly great.

It's so easy to use, highly customizable and gives you a professional and easy to update site

Built in integrations for payment processors and email lists are limited

It's the easiest, most beautiful, most professional looking site builder out there

I like that you can pick a template and then mold it to fit your needs. And its pretty self explanitory

It's a little pricey. But not terribly expensive

The benefit of having an easy formatted build your own website page.

We love that we can finish a clean design then hand it over to our client to manage after we're done.

We would love to have a bit more customization capabilities.

Our clients are small business owners, so they want a website that isn't going to continually cost them money to maintain.

I have been using Squarespace for my photography business's website for over 7 years and have always been impressed with the platform. I wanted to build a website from scratch, but I don't know how to code, so needed a platform which would allow me to craft something beautiful without much effort. I love how easy Squarespace was to set up and update, the amount of layouts on offer, and their phenomenal customer service.

I believe that Squarespace's SEO capabilities are somewhat limited and could improve upon. Other than that, I have not found anything that I dislike. Certain style customisations require custom code.

Squarespace helps me have a web presence which in turn helps me secure more bookings for my business.

The templates are very easy to adapt to fit your needs and the components are super-easy to edit. The pricing also feels like a good deal for all that you get — a beautiful website, plus with the commerce plan you can sell products and the support is fantastic. The Squarespace Commerce app is a GAME-CHANGER! It makes getting packages out the door + sending an alert to the customer really easy.

Nothing major, honestly. When building a page there isn't a way to see how it will appear on mobile, so it takes a little back and forth to get that right when they could have a mobile preview feature or something.

The main problem solved is a very professional website that I can build myself. The integrations with G Suite and Acuity also make the other aspects of your business — getting a professional email address, making appointments — a lot easier.

Squarespace is an amazing option for users to build their own website. I am not particularly tech-savvy and managed to design a really beautiful website for my small business. They have an easy to use platform with wonderful designs and graphics/photos. You also get a free two week trial, so can start building your site over that time.

I didn't dislike anything about Squarespace.

It has allowed me to have a simple yet informative website that I can refer people to when they would like to know more about my business. It also syncs easily with google domain and Calendly, which is super helpful for booking appointments.

It’s pretty easy to implement for small businesses.

All of the different apps. They don’t automatically sync.

Personal site space and easy to maneuver for customers.

I used Squarespace to create a landing page for my start up. Squarespace reduces the costs of creating an online presence for a new business, since there is no need to pay for custom backend development. The biggest pro of Squarespace is that the end results are beautiful, thanks to the templates and built-in library of images and logos. It is well within the reach of someone with no graphic or web design background to create a professional-looking site. Very impressed overall.

The use of a template does naturally reduce the customisability of the site. For some purposes, it will be necessary to hire a developer to create add-ons.

Squarespace is very cost-effective, since you can create a professional-looking website without hiring a professional. The template approach means that there is no need to pay a developer, which has reduced the early costs of starting a business.

squarespace makes it simple to create clean, minimalistic yet powerful websites for a variety of purposes.

Sometimes the customization features can be limiting.

There is a learning curve for building websites that may take some a bit of time. The benefits are how much easier it is to use than Wordpress, which i was on originally.

Squarespace is so easy to use! As a designer, putting together visually driven websites was a breeze. I've put together 4 different websites on squarespace, for very different businesses and with different content with ease.

Sometimes the templates can get repetitive, and coding for special features can be a little complex for the average user.

Easy, beautiful, engaging websites without having to hire a web designer. Score!

It is easy to create webpages, edit sections, customize, and integrate

We are beginning to outgrow Squarespace's ability to hold the amount of web presence we have.

Website platform and hosting. Ease of use for people with little to no web development skills is great for a low capacity team.

I like the UX/UI very easy to use as a beginner and in the end, created exactly what I was looking for

The formatting is a little difficult to get a handle on - ex. placing pictures side by side and making them all equal sizes.

Engagement with our community and brand promotion.

I mainly use it as my portfolio so it is pretty great for that.

I moved my blog because they just do not have the number of user friendly options that Wordpress self-hosted has.

They really need a way for us to access the backend

It’s very easy to set up a website and add content. There are so many layouts to choose from. I love how easy they made it and I love how my website looks.

Trying to figure out the SEO. I wish they had more information on how to use SEO to get more visitors to the website. I’ve never used it before and I still don’t fully understand how to implement it.

No problems other than trying to figure out how to use the SEO pieces. The benefit is that it’s affordable and potential clients can contact me through it.

Easy to use. All the themes are beautiful.

Much more expensive than competitors. I think charging you to use the platform and then taking a percentage of each sale is disgusting. Wish that it integrated with more third party apps like Wordpress and Shopify do.

Squarespace takes all the design work out of building a website for my business and easily accepts payments.

It is great how everything is integrated into Squarespace and you can set up a ton of items right through the SquareSpace dashboard like a business email. There are also a large amount of integrations which are are super simple to add to your site.

I dislike the flexibility WordPress has and Squarespace does not. With Wordpress, you can do a lot of with the design of the site right through a visual builder like Divi, Squarespace is somewhat restricting with elements in the visual builder.

Squarespace allows for an easier solution over WordPress. It is a quicker setup without having to install lots of plugins like I would need to if I want the same features on a WordPress site.